Death is coming

The closer death creeps up upon me the less I am able to understand the reasons for life or living.

Yes I have experienced a close family member dying and unlike television it takes decades to handle such a thing. To think I am going to put my family through such a thing when I finally leave is more horrific to me than the thought of death itself.

My life was and is still a learning experience but when all said and done what am I to do with all this accumulated learning over my lifetime if I just die. There is no logic or reason to this.

Long ago I became aware that the God story that is sold to the majority is just a nice story to give mankind with a message of a basic layout of how nice life could be if everyone followed these ideas. Not many in life do and if one thinks about it the good and evil structures actually depend on each other. The good that can be experienced in life is only understood as good when there is it's opposite to compare it to. This is not rocket science only common sense in reality. I am not saying we need to experience bad but understanding in it is needed to appreciate the great things many of us can have in our lives. From birth to death there are many ways mankind helps his fellow man. How many ways can you help?


Monday, June 20, 2011

Vision Quest In Nature

By David Styles


There's a spiritual world past the 1 we know. Past the world we see. Beyond the world we listen to. Beyond the seemingly physical world where we live.

For 1000's of years we were in touch with this particular other spiritual dimension. The planet in which trees spoke their wisdom. We could listen to the gentle voices in the wind. The river spoke to us in subtle tones. Birds would provide us messages via their song. There is a whole world past the 1 which we know.

Within this world there was no separation. For separation did not exist. Connection was all there was. No boundary in between where you ended. And no boundary in between where nature began.

Within this other dimension we had the sense of melting. Melting with nature. For we were everything. At the same time. You were the lizard feeling it is heart quicken next to the rock in the sun. You were the eagle sensing the air push next to it's feathers as it circled on a thermal. And you were the fish feeling the water flow along it's gills in the ocean. No separation.

Yet today we frequently feel that big sense of separation. We no longer really feel we're part of every thing. Maybe we feel we are like a separate drop of h2o floating within the ocean. A drop residing beside other drops of water. Rather than the sense that we're the vastness of the ocean.

This sense of separation is not our natural state. It has been learnt. Youthful kids don't feel separate. As you gaze deep in to the eyes of an infant you will see the connection. They know. Every second they experience this connection. The oneness with all beings. No separation in between themselves and other.

For this really is our all-natural state.

I've dipped in and out of this state numerous occasions. Consciously it initially happened when I was twenty years old. At one stage on my year long 'rite of passage' I spent 2 weeks alone by the ocean in a remote national park. One early morning whilst strolling along a deserted beach I bent down and picked up some moist sand. I spent several minutes taking a look at all the little grains on my finger tip. The various shapes. The various colors. The various textures. Every grain of sand totally different from the next. Each grain a person.

Then I felt the urge to look up at the beach and that is when it occurred. I got to see the entire beach was made up of those separate grains of sand. But the personal grains of sand produced the whole seaside.

In that moment my consciousness expanded. All of a sudden I grew to become a lizard I saw laying beside a bush with the sensation of my metabolism quicken in the sun and my scales rub against each other as I moved. At the same time I was also a sea-eagle over the ocean feeling the wind push against my wings and having the ability to look down with my telescope eyes. And I was also a fish being pushed up and down beyond the breakers feeling the h2o surge along my gills and sense of weightlessness as I swam through the h2o.

In that minute I grew to become every thing all at the same time.




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Gay Tour Sites In Ireland

By Howie Holben


Ireland has been good for gay vacations at least since the time of Oscar Wilde, although in those days it was not necessarily a friendly country for the LGBT community. Like Wilde, many people were jailed or sent away for hard labor for what was legally termed "indecency" and, until 1861, acts of sodomy were even punishable by death, but Ireland has come a long way since these dark days, decriminalizing same-sex sexual behavior in 1993 and legalizing civil unions in 2009.

While this may not necessarily mean that every rural village - or even every metropolitan area - in this largely Catholic country now fully embraces same-sex relationships, Ireland has become a much more accepting, welcoming country as a whole and is a truly remarkable choice for gay travel. Most of Ireland's larger cities, including Cork, Dublin, Galway and Waterford, now have a thriving community, establishments that are LGBT-friendly or LGBT-owned, annual community celebrations and a plethora of attractions that could easily fill your whole vacation; however, you also will not want to miss visiting the Irish countryside and exploring quaint villages sitting at the top of breathtaking cliffs along the coast.

While several larger cities now have annual community celebrations, pubs and clubs, community organizations and a visible LGBT scene, Dublin is unquestionably the center of LGBT life in Ireland and should be part of any gay travel plans to this country. Dublin nightlife offers both a casual pub scene and an upscale club scene complete with dress codes, which allows those on gay vacations to experience two very different aspects of local LGBT life. There are also a number of community festivals that take place throughout the year, including the Dublin International LGBTQ Pride Festival in June, the Dublin Lesbian and Gay Film Festival in July and the Dublin Gay Theatre Festival in May.

There is always something going on in Dublin, on either a small or large scale, so it is a good idea to pick up a copy of GNC, Ireland's main community magazine, when you arrive in town. There are many must-see attractions when partaking in gay travel in Dublin, including the Guinness Storehouse, the Old Jameson Distillery, the Hugh Lane Gallery, the Book of Kells, the Oscar Wilde House Museum and Dublin's quintessential LGBT bar, The George.

Gay tours are an ideal option for those considering gay vacations to Ireland and are a great way to ensure that you do not miss the many cultural, historical and natural attractions this romantic, intriguing country has to offer.




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